On Saturday we hosted a final good bye party for the Long Time. With this, the exhibition came to a close. You can view exhibition photos here.
But wait! Due to critical acclaim and popular demand, …before I wake, will remain open to the public in Gallery 1965. This work was the exhibition catalyst, commissioned by On Main. The gallery will be open 12-4pm, Wed-Sat from October 3-13th.
The publication, the Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak, is being distributed. On Main is hosting a book launch (Oct. 9) in Berlin as part of Think:Film – the International Experimental Cinema Congress 2012. Paul Wong, editor and the artists, Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak will be there. You can find more information about Think:Film here.
We have the book available on our website here.
Alternatively, you can print off the order form here.
Thoughts on …before I wake
“After we had given up trying to just do it (make the third part of the work) ourselves, I am pretty sure Lisa suggested that we would need help; we would need somebody to help us and get to where we were going. I joked that I was hoping it would be party drugs but she suggested hypnotism. That was 2010.”
-Kim Tomczak, Artist
Excerpt from book, An Interview with Steele + Tomczak
“It’s very personal and, again, it is very body-centered. We couldn’t figure it out, we had tried a bunch of visual things and all of them felt very false. How do you portray absence? How do you show nothingness? It was very unsatisfying, it was very wrong. Everything we were doing was wrong. We produced a lot of visual beauty and absolutely false images.”
-Lisa Steele, Artist
Excerpt from book, An Interview with Steele + Tomczak
“I wanted to see this work completed. In 2000, they made We’re Getting Younger All the Time and in 2003, Practicing Death. It had taken seven years to come up with the third component of the trilogy, Entranced, and another two years to complete production of the video. I am proud to premiere the completed installation work …before I wake.”
-Paul Wong,
Curator of the Long Time
Excerpt from Fade to Black, the Long Time book.
“The necrological meditations in …before I wake address the topic of death and the mysteries of “the other side” through an anticipatory approach. Contemplating the certainty of mortality, these fierce self-examinations push the video medium to encompass different qualities of meditative attention, whether in the form of retro-inspection, the oneiric gaze, or trance visualizations.”
-Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher,
writers for the Long Time
excerpt from “If I Should Die..”: Necrological Meditations in …before I wake
The Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak is a publication paralleled by a major exhibition delving into the last twelve years of artistic practice of Canadian artists Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak with essays by Felix Vogel, Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher, Michael Turner and Paul Wong.
Soft Cover, 88 Pages, full colour
Author: On Main
ISBN: 978-0-9694777-5-4
Published: September 6, 2012
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Publisher: On Main (On The Cutting Edge Production Society)
